they're about this high (very small), they actually both look quite a bit like me - you see, they are my brothers. my younger brother just has darker hair and my youngest brother has almost blonde hair. younger brother's nursing a beard, youngest one doesn't even have one. if it weren't for how small he is, i would wonder if he and i are even related, truth be told.

i've been told they both happened to have tumbled off the side of the mountain, by providence or some sort of suicidal personal choice, but they land they have fallen into is treacherous, and they have not heard the stories father told me as i was expected to take the throne so i was let in on quite a few more family secrets.

the valley of a'jele is a dangerous world, kindly on the outside but positively rotting from within, it is ruled by a malevolent deity named MALOR (the prefix mal- is even in his name, how do you not get that this is an evil, evil man?). or rather, it was, until my father and his priests and soldiers managed to seal away the god's power into eleven different gemstones, scattered across the land in places he cannot find or reach, as he is constrained to his white coffin. however i understand he is still very much alive, as you cannot kill a god simply by sealing it away. but you can't kill it without sealing it or weakening it either, as i was ordered to descend the mountain the day i took the crown to kill off whatever remnants of this once-mighty deity still exist.

and then my idiot brothers fell, and i would have to presume, being idiots, that they're ruining everything. i should suppose onsett is running around thinking he's deceiving MALOR, planning to stab him in the back one day, and knowing cognet, that sensitive little rose, he's probably in love with the demon.

if you've seen anyone fitting these descriptions, please, tell me IMMEDIATELY. or perhaps just explain to me what exactly i did to deserve such stupid siblings.

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Mm. This.. Certainly seems like a predicament! More political intrigue than I generally involve myself with, to be honest. You sound like you've got a fairly complete story, though. And I do believe I've seen similar characters running around these fields. Please let me know if you'd like me to help look; I could probably be of some assistance.

t'maion above, PLEASE do not hesitate. where have you seen them? what were they doing? i don't trust them as far as i can throw them, not one bit, when it comes to keeping their heads and avoiding making complete idiots of themselves.

Oh, dear! I don't believe I can remember for certain, though I know both have been in these hills... Not far? Probably not far?

I can tell you more, but not for free. What is it you said your duty was, up in your community? What kind of strengths of yours does that job entail?

Ohhhh.

Those guys! Yeah. I saw them.

So you're like, the older sibling who was given all of the handmedowns while they got jack and shit, and now they're striking out and not bein' little ducklings in line with your awesome destiny? Man! Life sure sucks to be you.

i find it's a bit more accurate to say the following: i have worked hard to earn father's favor, I'M the one who saved his life as a teenager, I'M the one who retrieved the divine flower to cure him of his illness, and quite frankly, i did it because that is the kind of person i want to be. not because i want attention. not because i want the throne. i don't want the burden and allure of power, but if i have to take it because my brothers would kill us all if they had it, then that's what i have to do.

they don't have to be me. they don't have to do what i did. i want them to exist in a state where i can turn my back on them for five seconds and not find that they have broken something or themselves. is that wrong of me?

Don't talk about your younger siblings that way >:O They're younger than you, of COURSE they're going to be less smarter than you!

Killing a god sounds super badass though, I'm really jealous of you!

oh, don't be fooled by age as a concept, i have seen many minds wiser than mine, younger minds. this is not a matter of age, this is a matter of inexperience - i'm not that much older than these two.

ah, i have yet to do it. but... i don't like that i must, believe me. somehow it feels more like a burden than a glory, no matter how wicked this god may be. i won't spare him, i know well enough that he does not deserve mercy, but somehow i take no pleasure in it at all.